THE KERNEL – The internet's favourite tabloid

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

This is what
happens when your
identity is stolen
on Tinder

Tinder doesn’t actually do that much to ensure users are who they say are. More »
Angry Egyptian
mob tears down
radio tower over
radiation concerns

A group of Egyptians tore down a radio tower reportedly fearing “the mobile waves emitted could be harmful to their families and their crops.” More »
A history of the
Internet's freakish
obsession with
Shrek

Shrek is love. Shrek is life. More »
Meet the activists fighting back against Amazon

A group of activists in England are carrying out a series of protests aimed at forcing Amazon into changing its working conditions. More »
These Internet scammers want your dogecoins to ‘save Venezuela’

Doge Save Venezuela purports to be raising funds to help dissidents using Dogecoin, but how legitimate can it be? More »
How the Internet made the printer sexy again

Thanks to Kickstarter, a new wave of innovative printers are hitting the marketplace. More »
Bee supporters get Ebay to stop selling banned pesticide in U.K.

Neonicotinoid chemicals pose an 'acute high risk' to bees. More »
Man uses Twitter account to trick English town into believing he’s the mayor

Apparently all you need to be mayor is the right Twitter account. More »

This is why
psychologists hate
journalists

That quiz you took to check if your colleague was a sociopath isn't all that accurate. More »
Why I rank my friends by income, IQ, and hotness

Milo Yiannopoulos explains why he keeps a database of his friends and colleagues and rates their personal, professional, physical and financial attributes. More »
Tech City: I hate to say ‘I told you so’

In the first instalment of his new weekly column, Milo Yiannopoulos reflects on Government disasters in east London, Lily Cole’s website and Adolf Hitler. More »
Advice for aspiring Edward Snowdens

Edward Snowden wasn't the hero that the American people needed. Greg Stevens looks at why his mission as a whistleblower failed and what the next government leaker should bear in mind. More »
Is it OK to laugh at Hitler now?

Mein Kampf is sailing to the top of the e-book charts. Jeremy Wilson on how the Nazis are becoming fair game again - and why that might be dangerous. More »
The anti-sugar campaign is sinister and silly

You don't bully people into eating more healthily by banning sugar. It's a cop out designed to grab headlines, says Chris Tilbury. More »

Subscribe to our mailing list